{"id":206594,"date":"2026-06-02T21:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=206594"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:03:00","slug":"and-the-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/06\/02\/and-the-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"And the pitch&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Conner-Harris-6-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206595\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Conner Harris fires a pitch during Tuesday\u2019s Division IV regional semifinal game against Perkins at Bowling Green State University. Unfortunately, the Cougars were held off the scoreboard and lost to the third ranked Pirates 3-0. A full game story can be found on the Sports page. <em>Photo courtesy of Monica Campbell<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Conner Harris fires a pitch during Tuesday\u2019s Division IV regional semifinal game against Perkins at Bowling Green State University. Unfortunately, the Cougars were held off the scoreboard and lost to the third ranked Pirates 3-0. A full game story can be found on the Sports page. Photo courtesy of Monica Campbell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 03:49:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206596,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206594\/revisions\/206596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}